4 Ways You are Raising a Spoiled Child

4 Ways You are Raising a Spoiled Child

It can be as simple as giving in to his whining about buying a new set of toys. He may be throwing tantrums regardless of the place and the time and it is just too tiring to deal with him. Kids are kids, we say. But what if we’re unconsciously raising a spoiled child by the way we overprotect them or give them too much material things? What if being too considerate of their offenses isn’t helpful at all?

Eden Grace Maids Agency is here to add more wisdom to your parenting skills! It is important to teach kids to be respectful, responsible, and independent while they are young.

Here are four ways we may be raising a spoiled child:

1) Shielding the child from difficult emotions.
It is normal for your 7-year-old boy to feel frustration after he failed his football try out. It is not surprising if your child got angry with her friends after she learned that she wasn’t invited to the slumber party. Children will feel negative emotions as they grow up and parents can’t prevent that from happening.

If you’re the kind of parent who would argue with his coach, his teacher, or even his friends after your child got frustrated or was treated unfairly, then maybe it’s time to check if you’re doing your child a favor or shielding him from feeling negative emotions. One day, he will become someone’s father or someone’s employee so he needs to be ready, as young as he is, to feel negative emotions and cope with life’s challenges.

2) Buying them too many material things.
We fully understand that you’re working hard to give your children a comfortable life! It is not wrong to go shopping with your child after he got an A+ in his Math class. However, overindulging him with material things may yield bad results. Drowning the child in too many toys may prevent him to appreciate what he has. When the child has an abundant supply of toy cars or many dolls to choose from, he or she will less likely feel gratitude. Don’t let acquiring material things be the norm of his or her childhood.

Let the Indo maid or Filipino maid observe how long does your child cherish something. Is he still enjoying the bicycle you bought him or did he abandon it after a week and bugged you to buy something new?

3) Warning them but never implementing the consequences.
You may have heard of the famous parenting advice about having a set of rules for the child along with its consequences. What consequences come with picky eating? Do you implement the consequences that go along with it? Or it is all just empty threats?

Parents and the Indo nanny or Filipino nanny must be consistent with the rules as much as possible. We can’t expect the child to stop hitting his brother or finish his homework when we let his misdeeds pass all the time. In the end, he will live in the adult world which has more consistent and heavier punishments.

4) Letting them disrespect people including their parents.
Manners matter! If he cannot respect his nanny and his parents, he may also do likewise to a simple vendor or his teacher. Molding manners start at home where he learns to speak his first words. Give him the message that talking back to his parents and teachers is intolerable and has its respective punishments.

Have a little check if he’s always disrespecting your Indo maid or Filipino maid. You may be surprised at how little children can be verbally and physically abusive to someone too!

We hope this article is useful!

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